Grand Prize Winner:

"Scratch This"

Written & Directed

By Jody Lauren Miller

Outstanding Performers

Stavroula Toska

"Switch"

Ronnie Graham

"Curse of War"

OUTSTANDING ACTRESS

Stavroula Toska was born and raised in Greece and moved to the States to pursue an acting career. She is the creator, star, writer and director of SWITCH, a scripted drama series based on her years of working as a dominatrix in New York City. The mind blowing season 1 of SWITCH stars Academy Award winner Olympia Dukakis, Emmy winner Cady McClain and is available exclusively at www.switchtheseries.com.

Her other works and collaborations include her multi award winning directorial debut, Beneath the Olive Tree - a feature documentary narrated by Academy Award winner Olympia Dukakis, IN THE VICE - a short film she directed based on true events and written by Katerina Grishakova, PRONOIA - a thriller she produced that is currently being developed into a feature written by Nick Efteriades, Livin' the Dream - a comedic web series she produced with Kim and Mai Spurlock, and The Sounding - a feature film she Executive Produced and which has won over two dozen awards in the festival circuit. The Sounding will be released in November 2018.

Stavroula is currently writing her memoir and developing a number of projects under her The Toska Matrix umbrella including a reality series, season 2 of SWITCH and a scripted series about boxing, among others.

She currently serves on the board of directors for the Hellenic Film Society, she is the NYC Events Director for Film Fatales, a proud feminist and advocate for women's equal rights.

OUTSTANDING ACTOR

RONALD GRAHAM Born in Brooklyn NY and raised in between NYC, Trinidad and TX. Ronnie’s love of the arts stems from his elementary school trips to operas and Broadway performances. For a brief part of his childhood, Ronnie lived in Sangre Grande, Trinidad with his grandmother. He attributes a lot of his creative mindset to his early exposure to Nature and spiritual upbringing. His theater education started at Lee College in Baytown TX. After three years and 14 stage productions, Ronnie earned a Theater degree. In 2004 Ronnie jumped into the commercial and modeling industry in Orlando, FL and appeared in numerous commercials, print ads, stage productions and independent films. In 2011 he decided to take his talents to NYC and continues to explore multiple areas of the film industry by working in production, collaborating with other creatives, performing voiceover work and dabbling in comedy. Ronald is also currently working as a statistical researcher and developing some theories related to his experiences in the casino gaming industry. His latest endeavors on the film front include a series of small projects that focus on music, courage, forgiveness and social awareness. He is grateful to his friends and family for their love and support and would like to thank all those involved throughout the journey of Curse of War for making this film one of the most rewarding experiences of his life.

TOP ACTRESSES

Liz Samuel

Momtress

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Coming to Roku soon

January/February 2019

MEET THE HEAD OF PANEL

Panel: Gregg Cannizzaro:

Born and raised in NYC, Gregg has a hand in all areas of the entertainment industry, including film, television & internet streaming video. Gregg was the producer/sketch comedy director for E! Entertainment Television's Emmy-Award winning hit series, Talk Soup, one of the longest running shows on the network to date. Gregg is also a cinematographer and director, known for Get a Job, Hanging in Hedo and Behind the Grind.

Cannizzaro serves as Executive Producer of the World Supermodel Productions in addition to being the WSP USA national director and Executive Producer. Mr. Cannizzaro as recently formed Zagaro Filmed Entertainment with indie film director/writer Annette Alicanti. Zagaro will serve as the creative arm for the soon to debut GITV Original films series. GITV commending a impressive library of over 1000 hours of diverse indie, classic and mainstream programming is branching out into original television programming.

Cami Ciotta:

In 2010 Cami started as a promoter for Independent Artists : she was able to grab the attention of a popular drummer magazine and she had Joey Barnes featured, also obtained some radio plays, and open a few doors for some possibilities of a record label. She grabbed the attention of an award-winning producer who had produced for Bon Jovi and other successful bands. Prey Pictures brought her on board as Executive Producer to promote and find funding for their feature film “The Roaming”. (seeking: $1,250,000) She was able to bring on board entertainment attorney William Whitacre.

July 2011:

Cami was Vice President of Development for Moon Lake Films. “Murder in America-the Sarah Cherry Story” aired January 2012 on the Documentary channel.

By 2013 Gregg Cannizzaro and Cami Ciotta began creating their own platform to promote Independent Artists. Go Indie TV is by invitation only. All content is screened by Cami for high production value and creativity.

We held a screening opportunity with two age groups to assist on choosing this year's winners of the NYWIFT Online Shorts Film Festival : 15-20 year's of age and 25-60 year's of age. It was important for us to receive input from the general public.

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Go Indie TV is currently open for submissions to air on our website, Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV and soon to be on our updated Roku Channel. Go Indie TV is now supplying content for Channel 11 Miami and Channel 21 Houston. We will notify you if and when your content has been approved to air. Go Indie TV is also excited for our Artists as we now offer those with a library of content to have an exclusive/dedicated Roku channel for their content alone. The Artist will receive 20% of ad revenue.

If you have not been invited to submit your work, then please feel free to submit your work for consideration. For $60.00 we will air your work on all Go Indie TV platforms plus submit to our partners for an opportunity to earn a revenue generated from ads.

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Thank you so much Ms Ciotta, I will try what you have suggested. we are so impressed with your courtesy and eagerness to make sure your clients are satisfied, it is wonderful to experience, in today's world.

Thank you so much, Cami. And, thank you, Georgina for reviewing my film. I am so thrilled that you not only completely understood my short film, but that it touched you and made you think. This is our mission as film makers and I couldn't be happier.

Hi Cami, thank you very much for advertising my name and film !

My first pitch went well last Sunday and the company requested to read the new screenplay which I am polishing since then and sending to Joey asap. Thank you again to you and your team!

Hi Cami, just wanted to let you know that yesterday I completed my last 2 movie pitches and it went well. I have been pitching a screenplay that I wrote 20 years ago 🙂 and got it requested by 2 companies and will continue shopping it around.

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